1.- NATURAL TREATMENT OF THE PHARYNGITIS:

For one better evolution of the natural treatment of the pharyngitis, the patient will have to complement it with the following recommendations:

A.  Steam baths with Eucalyptus:

In fasting or before sleeping.

It’s recommended  to make morning baths once per week.

If you are or travel to Peru; visit Churín (210 kilometers to the northwest of Lima), place privileged by its thermal waters and their medicinal baths, goods to cure dermal, hepatics, renals, respiratory, nervous and rheumatic affections. These baths will facilitate the recovery of the chronic processes of the respiratory system, sinusitis, astma, rinitis, bronchitis, chronic colds of the mucous, then they will help you to expel the mucosities from the lung, improving your pulmonary breathing.

Contraindications  of the Steam Baths:

Cardiovascular diseases like, Arrhythmias, recent IMA  (Infarct of Acute Myocardium);  Estenosis Aórtica  (Obstruction of  the Aortic Valve of the Heart); Hypotension  Ortostática (Low Arterial Pressure) or other decompensated cardiopathies; Cataracts; Ailments Inflammatory of  the Skin  and General Weakness.

B. Zahumar the the Patient’s bedroom:

Important and every days, with leaves of eucalyptus or rind of garlic to disappear the virus and bacter that stay in the atmosphere. Before sleeping, try to do some of the cataplasms or baths of feet. It will help you to remove the phlegm from the lung.

C. Nourishing Special Diet:

Complementary to the treatment, to alleviate the symptoms and to improve the quality of life of the patient.

D.  TO GARGLE:

To gargle will benefit to you smoothing and calming the sore throat. Those that we propose and  that can use very frequently  are;  to gargle with lukewarm water and salt (1/2 teaspoon of salt in a lukewarm water glass) several times a day; otherwise,  gargles with matico water or chamomile, with a little of salt and the lemon juice, every 2 hours, during the day.  

E. FASTING:

To practise the fasting is one of  the best ways to make to rest physiologically our organism. That is to say;  it makes possible  our  organism  to improve all its mechanisms of detoxification and regeneration. For the case of cure pharyngitis, it will be beneficial to do it the weekends, only taking fruits juices like orange, lemon, grapefruit and tangerine.

Everybody know that the pharyngitis is one of the diseases that most frequently affect the respiratory system, attacking mainly the infantile population and young people. For example, some acute pharyngitis, mainly those that the children suffer, go accompanied with general symptoms affecting the boy’s state, nevertheless in the adult it’s more frequent than they are product of a cooling or the incidence of irritating factors, causing only sore throat. For that reason, it’s necessary to know how to prevent the acute pharyngitis with some natural treatments in house, complementary to a special diet, those that will help to alleviate the faringitis, avoiding therefore the annoyances of the sore throat that causes this disease.

For example it’s necessary to take orange juice to control and to lower the fever. And for to calm the pain and inflammation caused by the disease, should have to consume KOF KOF CANDIES. These candies have the property to generate itch in the throat causing the desire to cough and expectorate phlegms that these dissolves in the throat by effect of the kión. Additionally to it, it will have to be hydrated. How? Taking much vitamin C, to eliminate those phlegms of the throat, for example: orange + lemon + grapefruit or natural pineapple in juice or lukewarm extract  (1/2 liter) that somehow smooth the throat. And in order to raise the defenses  of your immunological system, before sleeping, take UNA DE GatO. Additional as form of prevention don’t smoke, because this habit increases the irritation of the throat and contaminates the environment in general.

You should consider that the excessive use of pills or antiinflammatory aerosols can aggravate the sore throat still more.

It’s good take yogurt without cream, broth hen with enough kión, broth of vegetable.

Avoid the medicines when the pain is a consequence of a viral pharyngitis, because the medicines don’t help; on the contrary they contribute that the bacteria develop strength.

There are cases of sore throat in which the lymphatic ganglions of the neck become inflamed so much that usually is necessary take antiinflammatory, like the Prednisona, to facilitate the breathing and swallowing.

Bacterial pharyngitis is an infection in the pharynx produced by a bacterium that is called estreptococo of group A. Forms of contagion By contact with infected people. By gotitas of saliva.

Symptoms
• Pain throat.
• General malaise.
• Reddened throat.
• Inflamed tonsils.
• Pain and inflammation in the ganglia of the neck.
• Convulsions, in some cases.
• Cough and nasal congestion are not typical symptoms of diseases    triggering factors by estreptocócicas infections.

Treatment
• Like first measurement, the doctor will take a sample from the throat to corroborate if it is pharyngitis.
• If it is confirmed, is probable that prescribe an antibiotic to reduce the symptoms of the child; to avoid that the infection propagates to ears,    nose and prevents complications like the rheumatic fever.
• In addition, it can prescribe antipyretics for the fever and analgesic for the pain throat.

Natural treatment
• Candies Kof Kof: To take between meals 2 caramels until disappearing the malaise (to see our section products)/in uninformed taking the    cofoundation from nail from cat (one ounce for a boy of 1 year, 2 for 2 years)
• Alcohol: To slightly protect the pharynx with a handkerchief wet with alcohol.
• Onion: To mince finely a onion and to mix it with 3 spoonfuls of sugar. To add water to him and to cook by 10 minutes. To soon rest to take 1 -   2 spoonfuls three times to the day.
• Liquid diet: Purees, juices, broths, fished cooked, etc.
• Avoid: To as much avoid the cold in foods as in the air that is breathed.
• Elder Flower: Infusions of elder flowers, 1 spoonful in ½ liter of water. To cook and to rest. To do gárgaras 3-4 times to the day.
• Malva: Infusion of malva, to realise 2 teaspoons by the pricked root in a water glass. To cook and to rest. To take 3-4 twice hot spoonfuls to    the day.
• Thyme: Infusion of thyme, in a hot water glass to add a spoonful of thyme and to rest 15 minutes. To do gárgaras 3-4 times to the day. Also    it is possible to be taken like another option.

KOF KOF CANDIES, natural expectorant constituted mainly by kión, has the capacity to dissolve phlegms ofthe bronchi, expectorating the nasal secretion of this infection and alleviating the cough.
This natural treatment improves notably when is accompanied by a special food diet and appropriate steam baths. They are cheap and very advisable to treat itself personally.

We propose a different alternative of treatment.  

1.-

WHAT IS PHARYNGITIS?

The Pharyngitis is the inflammation or irritation of the pharynx caused by a virus, which generates an acute infection, causing sore throat or difficulty to digest.  Also is know as sore throat when this affection spreads also to the tonsils, denominating itself like faringo-tonsilitis.

Usually it’s caused by virales infections, but the bacterial infections also can cause it, as well as the tonsilitis (secondary to the inflammation of the tonsils), abuse of the voice, irritating substances like the cigarette, the allergic reactions, the buccal infections, the bacterial exhibition through very old dental brushes or can be associated with many diseases like part of the symptomatology.

Many mothers ask what is pharyngitis? Pharyngitis is one of the infections most common in children between 4 and 15 years, fundamentally in the first school years. The acute pharyngitis is very contagious. When somebody has faringitis, when speak, to cough or to sneeze it produces an invisible rain spreading drops with virus of the pharyngitis (viral pharyngitis), that the near neighbor assimilates. The germs propagate with facility in the schools, the work or the home and the possibility of contracting it will be greater if your weak or exhausted, if you smoke or you have been in a cold and humid climate.  In severe cases, there is difficulty to breathe and it lasts few days with treatment.
Then if you smoke or exposes the face regularly to irritating environments or suffers of continuous irritation in the bosoms paranasales, lungs or mouth, could be developing a chronic or acute pharyngitis, in which the symptoms will return once in a while. Between the main causes are the hard changes of temperature, to take frozen drinks and to be in zones of  contagion. It’s difficult to differentiate the viral pharyngitis from the bacterial one only with the exploration. In both cases, the mucous faringea appears inflamed slight or intensely and can be covered by a membrane and an exuded purulent. Appear fever, cervical adenopatías and leucocitosis in both cases, although of more intense form in the estreptocócica.

CAUSES OF  THE PHARYNGITIS:

The main causes of the pharyngitis are the virus and the bacteria.

a)   Viral Pharyngitis:

It’s  the main cause. In the majority of cases, produced by a virus, specially the one of the influenza (virus of flu), the one of the common flu one, adenovirus, mononucleosis and VIH, among others; that appear generally in the environment and special in the changes of climate. This virus develops white phlegms. 

b)    Bacterial:

The more common. For example;  the estreptocócica,  a type of pharyngitis that affects mainly to the children in school age in which they become infected by contact of the saliva or snots. It requires of an suitable treatment to avoid the possible appearance of rheumatic fever that it can affect to the valves of the heart or the kidneys. The bacteria develop yellow greenish phlegms.

c)    Non Infectious:

There are other causes of pharyngitis, like the mechanical ones, bad breathing, chemical irritation, tumour, allergic, etc. That is to say, the continuous infections of the lungs or throat, constant irritation by the habit to smoke, excessive consume of alcohol and the constant breathing of contaminated air.

B. FREQUENT SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS:

• Sore throat.
• Difficulty to eat.
• Tickles in the throat (itch in the throat).
• Fever and dry cough.
• Inflamed  and sensible lymphatic ganglions in the neck.
• The throat can be reddened or covered by a white or grayish membrane (sometimes).
• Pain of neck and / or head and / or body (sometimes).
• Catarrh or nasal secretion / nasal congestion
• Inflexibility in the joints
• Inflammation of the lymphatic ganglions.

C.    TREATMENT OR CURING:

• To avoid unnecessary cooling.
• Not to expose itself to airflows, nor in summer.
• Not to take excessively cold liquids.
• To avoid the tobacco and cigarette. It’s important to let smoke when appear the first symptoms of pharyngitis, because the irritation produced by the tobacco prevent the treatment and can become chronicle the disease.
• If you’re inclined to the pharyngitis in winter, is recommendable to wear a scarf to cover the neck.
• Rest in bed, if there is fever.
• To prepare foods easy to eat for the patient, even puree, if the annoyances are strong.

D. WHEN TO LOOK FOR  IMMEDIATE MEDICAL ATTENTION:

• If it develops pain and inflammation of persistent throat, that impede to eat or to breathe.
• If it has high fever (on 39°C) or shivers.
• If it presents inflamed lymphatic ganglions in the neck or eruption.
• If the symptoms persist for long time or if the patient doesn’t improve.

E.    WAYS TO PREVENT THE PHARYNGITIS:

• To avoid zones where are people with pharyngitis, because is contagious.
• To the first itch of throat, to do gargles to clean them of the virus.
• To control the problems of influenza or tonsillitis with natural treatments.
• Don’t share foods or drinks with other ill people.
• To avoid areas in which there are people smoking.